Palm was traditionally known for its crappy web browsers: ever since the Palm Tungsten T, their high-powered hardware was crippled by Web Pro or Blazer (because Palm refused to pay Opera for a native PalmOS version of the browser).
Fortunately, it looks like the boys learned their lesson: jkontherun reports that the web browser found in the Pre is blazingly fast:
The Pre had fully rendered the complex site in around 8 seconds. Same site on my iPhone? About 30 seconds. Obviously, I don’t know if the Palm Pre Webkit browser caches web pages from prior usage. I know my iPhone doesn’t, so even if this page load speed was based on cache, it’s still a function not offered on my iPhone. Again, I saw this in real-time. Hit the Big12 site on your device and see how long it takes to render and use. Heck, why not leave a comment with the platform you used as well as the browser?
A video showing the relevant section can be seen at the URL below:
http://jkontherun.com/2009/03/12/palm-pre-webcast-tidbit-browser-nearly-4x-faster/
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